Implementing support for other formats should be very easy.
The architecture of pstoedit consists of a PostScript frontend
which needs to call a PostScript interpreter like Ghostscript and
the individual backends which are pugged into a kind of framework.
This framework can be used independently from the PostScript
frontend from any other program. The framework provides a uniform
interface to all different backends. You need a C++ compiler to
compile and Ghostscript to run pstoedit. pstoedit should run on
all Un*x like systems (including Cygwin) and has also been ported to
OS/2, MS Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista, and RiscOS.

Since version 3.00 it is possible to add new drivers without
even recompiling the core program. pstoedit can load additional
drivers as plugins.

pstoedit also cooperates with autotrace. Autotrace can produce
a dump file for further processing by pstoedit using the -bo (backend
only) option. Autotrace is a program written by a group around
Martin Weber and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/

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